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WAR APPENDIX

3. Small mutiny at Cronstadt.
5. Mutineers on the Potemkin declare a rebellion.
6. Armistice refused by Japan until substance of her terms is accepted by Russia.
Japanese foreign loan of $150,000,000 41/2 per cent 5-20 years placed: to issue at 90—divided equally among Germany, England and America.
7. Baron Rosen, new Russian ambassador, reaches Washington.
8. Mutineers on Kniaz Potemkin surrender to Roumania as deserters; sink the warship at Kustenji.
Japanese envoys set sail for America. Tokio reports gradual advance to north by armies in Manchuria.
China appeals to Powers for share in peace conference.
Japanese land on island of Sakhalin.
9. Count Cassini leaves Washington, after seven years' service.
10. Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard agreed upon by Russia and Japan as scene of peace negotiations.
11. Kniaz Potemkin, with loyal crew, sails for Sebastopol.
Shuvaloff, prefect of Moscow police, assassinated.
12. Japanese loan heavily oversubscribed.
13. Sergius Witte appointed senior Russian peace envoy, in response to severe criticism of Muravieff.
Twenty-four leaders of Odessa riots hanged.
17. Witte gives out interview, to general effect that Russia will not accept humiliating terms of peace.
19. Zemstvo Congress meets in Moscow, in spite of police prohibition.
20. Japanese army under Hasegawa advancing through north Korea against Vladivostock.
21. China's identic note, that she will not recognize peace terms in which she is not consulted, received at Washington.
Mr. Witte arrives in Paris.
24. Japanese dislodge Russians from two positions south of Tumen River.
Czar and kaiser meet off Swedish coast.
Kastries, on Siberian mainland, seized by the Japanese.
25. Baron Komura, and rest of Japan's peace mission, arrive in New York.

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